Railway rail joint



March 23 1926.

M. T. PRILLAMAN RAILWAY RAIL JOINT Filed June 4, 1925 gwoemtoc I M- I, Edi/arm Patented Mar. 23, 1926.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE;

MAURIE T. PRILLAMAN, F BLUEFIELD, WEST VIRGINIA.

RAILWAY RAIL JOINT.

Application filed .Tune 4, 1925. Serial No. 34,983.

To (12/ whom it mc comjcrn: through the end and bottom side of the rail 8e it known that I, Mariana T. PnILL-h- 2. Below its groove 3 the rail 1 is provided MAN, a citizen of the United States,residing with a centrally arranged and lol'igitudinally t Bluefield, in the county of Mercer and extending projection 5, and above its groove 5 lit-ate of {Vest Virginia, have invented cerat the rail 2 is provided with a similar pro-- tain new and useful Improvements in Railjection 6. i The depth of the projections 5 5 way Rail Joints; and I do hereby declare and (S is approximately equal to-one-half the the following to be a full, clear, and exact similar dimension of the rails l and 2. The description of the invention, such as will top side of the projection 5 islocated in the :0 enable others skilled in the artto which it plane of the bottom wall of the groove 3 and appertains to make and use the same the bottom side of this projection is located This invention has for one of its objects in the plane of the bottom ofthe rail 1. the provision of a rail joint which shall be The top side of the projection 6 is located exceedingly simple and durable and through in the plane of the top side of the rail 2 and the medium of which the meeting ends of the bottom side of this projection is located railway rails may be firmly connected within the plane of the top wall of the groove 05 out the aid of fish plates or angle bars. 4. The web of the rail 1 and the projection The foregoing and other objects are at- 6 of the rail 2 are provided with registering tained by the construction, combination and openings 8 and 8, respectively, for the re- 31) arrangen'ient of parts hereinafter fully deception of bolts 10. The web of the rail 2 scribed and claimed, and illustrated in the and the projection 5 of the rail 1 are proaccompanying drawing, wherein: vided with registering openings 11 and 11,

Figure 1 is a view in side elevation of a respectively, for the reception of bolts 12. pair of railway rails connected together by The projection of one rail has a snug fit a joint embodying my invention; in the groove of the other rail, and the'com- Figure 2 is a top plan view of the rails; biued vertical dimension of the projections Figure 3 is a bottom plan view of the is equalto the vertical dimension of the rails. rails; In view thereof, and as the bolts passing Figure is a sectional view taken on the through one rail pass through the projection 30 vertical plane indicated by the line l4 of of the other, it will be understood that the Figure l; rails are firmly connected together and that Figure 5 is a perspective view of one of the projection 6 provides the rails with a the rails, and substantially continuous top side.

Figure 6 is a perspective view of the other hat is claimed is: I rail. A pair of railway rails of which one is Corresponding and like parts are referred provided with an upper groove and a lower to in the following description, and desigprojection and the other with. an up nated in the several views of the accompany per projection and a lower groove, the ing drawing, by similar reference characters' project-ion of one rail snugly fitting in the In the drawing 1. and 2 designate a pair of groove of the other, the top side of railway rails. The rail 1 is provided in its one projection being located in the plane upper side with a groove 3 and the rail 2 of the top sides of the rails and the hotin its lower side with a groove 4-. The tom side of the other projection being lo grooves 3 and at extend centrally and longicated in the plane of the bottom sides of the tudinally of the rails, and have a depth subrails, and bolts passing through the webs of stantially equal to one-half the correspondthe rails and through the projections. ing dimension of the rails. The groove 3 In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

opens out through the end and top side of the rail 1, and the groove 4 opens out MAURIE Ti PRILLAMAN. 

